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None of This Is Happening | Jared Olson
None of This Is Happening | Jared Olson
In Mexico, those displaced by armed conflict find themselves caught between criminal groups, paramilitaries, and a frequently indifferent government.
Jared Olson is a writer and independent investigative journalist. Focusing on human rights in Mexico and Honduras, his reportage has appeared in The Intercept, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Al-Jazeera, and Foreign Policy, and has been featured on the BBC and NPR. He lives between Mexico City and Honduras. He’s on Twitter @jolson321.
·thebaffler.com·
None of This Is Happening | Jared Olson
Language lesson
Language lesson
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·inaniludibrio.com·
Language lesson
Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams
Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams
Source: Better Business Bureau The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example . In...
·jpkoning.blogspot.com·
Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of everyday Americans as they suck up to the powerful billionaires who will soon be publicly calling the shots.
·citationneeded.news·
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
VPNs Are Not a Solution to Age Verification Laws
VPNs Are Not a Solution to Age Verification Laws
VPNs are having a moment. On January 1st, Florida joined 18 other states in implementing an age verification law that burdens Floridians' access to sites that host adult content, including
·eff.org·
VPNs Are Not a Solution to Age Verification Laws
How AI Revolution Is Driving 200,000 Layoffs On Wall Street
How AI Revolution Is Driving 200,000 Layoffs On Wall Street
Wall Street execs predict 200,000 layoffs, due to artificial intelligence (AI). As technology impacts finance, and other sectors, here's how to prepare your career.
·forbes.com·
How AI Revolution Is Driving 200,000 Layoffs On Wall Street
How factory farming built America
How factory farming built America
Factory farming’s political and cultural influence, and its impacts on American life, explained.
·vox.com·
How factory farming built America
The Borda Count is the Best Method of Voting - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Borda Count is the Best Method of Voting - Marginal REVOLUTION
It’s well known that the voting methods we use are highly defective, as they fail to meet fundamental criteria like positive responsiveness, the Pareto principle, and stability. Positive responsiveness (monotonicity) means that if a candidate improves on some voters’ ballots, this should not reduce the candidate’s chances of winning. Yet, many voting methods, including runoffs […]
·marginalrevolution.com·
The Borda Count is the Best Method of Voting - Marginal REVOLUTION
There’s a simple reason Gen-Zers like me won’t change a lightbulb
There’s a simple reason Gen-Zers like me won’t change a lightbulb
As a new study suggests that a proportion of Generation Z would rather hire a professional to change a lightbulb or hang a picture frame, Ellie Muir looks into why – and explains how DIY has become a privilege in the current economic climate
·independent.co.uk·
There’s a simple reason Gen-Zers like me won’t change a lightbulb
The Toaster Project - Futility Closet
The Toaster Project - Futility Closet
In a 1958 essay, economist Leonard Read argued that no one knows how to make a pencil. In a complex economy, the components of this simple implement — cedar, lacquer, graphite, ferrule, factice, pumice, wax, and glue — are contributed by a network of specialists who never meet. “There isn’t a single person … including the president of the pencil company, who contributes more than a tiny, infinitesimal bit of know-how.” As if to disprove this idea, student Thomas Thwaites set out in 2009 to build a toaster from scratch. He bought a £3.94 consumer unit and reverse-engineered it, hoping...
·futilitycloset.com·
The Toaster Project - Futility Closet
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallet...
·jpkoning.blogspot.com·
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
The Era of Human Opioid
The Era of Human Opioid
(originally published Summer 2017) Given the longevity of his parents, we can say President Trump is very likely to thrive until he is 90 years old. I posit that those years will be in office or in…
·inaniludibrio.com·
The Era of Human Opioid